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Frequently Asked Questions
v1.4 - Updated 7/29/2011
General Questions
Movie Plot Questions
General Questions
What is Big Trouble in Little China?
Trouble in Little China (BTLC) is a action / adventure / fantasy /
kung-fu motion picture, directed by John Carpenter and written by W.D. Richter, Gary Goldman, and
David Z. Weinstein. It was
by Taft Entertainment Pictures and released by 20th Century Fox in
July of 1986.
Who starred in BTLC?
film starred Kurt Russell (Tombstone, Backdraft) as the wise-cracking
truck-driver Jack Burton, actress and model Kim Cattrall (Sex in the City,
Star Trek VI) as the lawyer Gracie Law, and co-starred Dennis Dun
(Warriors of Virtue) as Wang Chi and Victor Wong (Three Ninjas) as
Egg Shen. Playing the part of the evil Lo Pan was the versatile Asian
actor James Hong (Chinatown, Blade Runner)
What's the storyline?
Burton drives into San Francisco Chinatown on a trucking job. Once
there, he meets up with his old friend Wang Chi. Wang loses a bet
to Jack, so Jack accompanies Wang to pick up Wang's girlfriend and
collect his winnings. At the airport, Wang's girlfriend, Miao Yin,
is kidnapped by a bunch of street punks revealed to be under the command
of a 2000-year-old evil spirit named Lo Pan. Lo Pan needs to marry a special Chinese girl with green eyes to become flesh
and take over the world, and Miao Yin happens to fit the bill. The story is basically about Jack and his
friends (including lawyer Gracie Law and magician Egg Shen) trying
to get Miao Yin back while stopping the evil Lo Pan.
What's so great about BTLC?
film was directed by John Carpenter, horror-meister of filmmaking,
and has his special touch throughout the film. There are grotesque
monsters, decent special effects, great kung-fu fighting sequences
(employing great fight choreography from James Lew), funny lines,
and a bizarre mixture of camp and kitsch. The film never really takes
itself too seriously, making some of the cheesy lines and situations
great fun to watch. Kurt Russell plays his John Wayne-like role to
the hilt, and watching one of the Storms literally blow up is classic.
What formats are BTLC available for viewing in?
BTLC is available on Blu-Ray, DVD, VHS, and Laserdisc formats. You might find a Betamax
copy floating around somewhere, but it's got to be quite rare.
What are the specs of the Blu-Ray version?
The Blu-Ray of Big Trouble in Little China was released in August 2009 and contains:
The original film in 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video (2.35:1)
DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround track
Original film and extended cut versions (with never-before-seen-footage) accessible on BD-50 dual-layer disc via seamless branching
Other features are those previously offered on the 2-Disc DVD version:
5.1 DTS English
English Dolby Digital 4.1 Surround
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Separate Audio track with commentary by director John Carpenter
& actor Kurt Russell
Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes (including an Alternate Ending)
An Out-of-this-World Effects Montage with commentary by SFX guru,
Richard Edlund
Still Gallery
Advertising Gallery
Magazine Articles
Music Video of &Big Trouble in Little China& by John Carpenter
and the Coupe de Villes
Movie Trailers
Television Spots
Interactive DVD Menus
What are the specs of the DVD versions?
There are actually two versions of the BTLC DVD:The 2-disc DVD &Special Edition& version released in May 2001 contains:
The original film in Anamorphic
Widescreen (2.35:1 Aspect Ratio)
5.1 DTS English
English Dolby Digital 4.1 Surround
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Separate Audio track with commentary by director John Carpenter
& actor Kurt Russell
Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes (including an Alternate Ending)
An Out-of-this-World Effects Montage with commentary by SFX guru,
Richard Edlund
Still Gallery
Advertising Gallery
Magazine Articles
Music Video of &Big Trouble in Little China& by John Carpenter
and the Coupe de Villes
Movie Trailers
Television Spots
Interactive DVD Menus
The single disc DVD version released in June 2003 contains:
The original film in Anamorphic
Widescreen (2.35:1 Aspect Ratio)
5.1 DTS English
English Dolby Digital 4.1 Surround
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Separate Audio track with commentary by director John Carpenter
& actor Kurt Russell
Will there be a sequel to BTLC?
not. But here's what we know:
Back in the early 90's, there were plans in the works to create
a TV series based on Big Trouble in Little China, called &More
Trouble in Little China.& A screenplay was created, but the project
was a petition circulated on the Internet to get a sequel made, and soon Carpenter himself heard about a desire
for BTLC2. Responding
to the request, Carpenter noted that the first film did not make
enough money back to warrant a sequel, and would probably not be considered.
(Which is strange considering that Escape from NY, a marginally successful
film, had a sequel made) He did like the idea of a TV series or TV
movie, but nothing seemed to come of it.
1998, I approached John Carpenter at Dave's Video in Sherman Oaks,
CA during a promo for his release of The Thing on DVD. After questioning him on making a sequel, the director expressed
no desire to make Big Trouble over again. So
it looks like people will have to be satisfied with the DVD release
(for now).
Can I get the Music Soundtrack to BTLC?
Although out of print,
John Carpenter's musical score to Big Trouble in Little China IS available!
There are currently three versions out there: the original Demon Records
1999 Supertracks release with added music and
bonus tracks, and the 2009 La-La Land Records release with the complete score. The
original CD is hard to find, but sometimes someone is selling a copy
on Ebay. The newer CDs can be found on Ebay and occasionally
are the track listings of each CD:
Trouble in Little China (1986) - 1986 Demon Records (DSCD-2)
composed by John Carpenter
Recording,
mixing, sequencing and synthesizer programming by Alan Howarth
Big Trouble in Little China (The Coupe de Villes) (3:13)
Pork Chop Express (3:40)
The Alley (2:00)
Here Come the Storms (2:20)
Lo Pan's Domain (4:30)
Escape from Wing Kong (8:00)
Into the Spirit Path (7:07)
The Great Arcade (7:50)
The Final Escape (6:58)
Playing Time: 43 minutes, 38 seconds
Trouble in Little China (1986) - 1999 Super Tracks Music Group (DSCD-2)
Composed and Performed by John Carpenter in Association with Alan
Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China (Performed by the Coupe de Villes) (3:19)
Pork Chop Express (3:59)
The Alley (2:02)
Here Come the Storms (2:14)
Lo Pan's Domain (6:04) **
Escape from Wing Kong (10:10) **
Into the Spirit Path (7:04)
The Great Arcade / Final Escape Part 1 (7:53)
The Final Escape Part 2 (6:58)
Big Trouble in Little China - Reprise (Performed by the Coupe de Villes)
Backstabbed
Opening (3:35) *
Alexandra (5:57) *
Blue Planet Interlude (3:08) *
from New York
Atlanta Bank Robbery (3:31) *
Never Before Released Tracks
Contains Previously Unreleased Music
Trouble in Little China (1986) - 2009 La-La Land Records (LLLCD 1086)
Composed and Performed by John Carpenter in Association with Alan
Howarth (3000 unit limit)
&Prologue& (2:15)
&Pork Chop Express& (Main Title) (4:01)
&Abduction At Airport& (4:17)
&The Alley& (Procession) (1:12)
&The Alley& (War) (2:31)
&The Storms& (2:42)
&Tenement / White Tiger& (3:49)
&Here Come The Storms& (4:15)
&Wing Kong Exchange& (4:40)
&Lo Pan’s Domain / Looking For A Girl& (3:16)
&Friends Of Yours? / Escape Iron Basis& (7:18)
&Escape From Wing Kong& (5:38)
&Hide& (4:35)
&Call The Police& (7:32)
&Dragon Eyes& (1:12)
&Into The Spirit Path& (7:05)
&The Great Arcade& (7:53)
&The Final Escape& (Lo Pan’s Demise / Getaway) (7:02)
&Goodbye Jack& (3:14)
&Big Trouble In Little China& (End Credits - Album Version) (3:22) Performed By The Coupe De Villes
&Stingers Montage& (5:24)
&Big Trouble In Little China& (Original Version) (3:01) Performed By The Coupe De Villes
Total Score Running Time: 96:29
Where can I find the answers to more questions on BTLC?
the Wing Kong Exchange at
Movie Plot Questions
What game is Jack playing at the beginning of the movie?
the classic Chinese bean-counting game of Fan-Tan.
There are four players in this game. You need one piece of paper, sticks (icy-pole sticks etc.) and dried beans. The players number the corners of the piece of paper zero to three. Each player selects a number between zero and three and writes his or her name next to that number on the paper. One player picks up a handful of beans and puts it on the paper. Using a stick they count the beans into 4 equal piles. This continues until the beans can no longer be distributed equally. The winner is the player whose number matches the number of beans remaining.
Thanks to Richard at URH for clarification!
There's also a modern domino game called Fan Tan. This game, also known as Card
Dominoes, and probably yet other names, involves getting rid of all
your cards by playing them to a layout. In the basic game this layout
starts with the 7 of each suit and grows outward towards the king
in one direction and the ace in the other. For details see Melissa
Binde's Fan Tan page ()
Why is Jack's truck called &The Pork Chop Express?& What's
he carrying?
What's this whole thing about green eyes?
years ago, the first sovereign emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang Di,
was challenged by the warrior Lo Pan and his armies. Lo Pan was defeated,
and cursed by both Huang Di and his patron god of the East to have
no flesh and live as a ghost for eternity. Huang Di and the god of
the East put an escape clause in Lo Pan's curse, however. To appease
the god of the East, Lo Pan would have to marry a special girl with
green eyes. To appease Huang Di, he had to kill her.
So why did it take 2000 years for Lo Pan to find a suitable girl with
green eyes?
Apparently,
girls with green eyes are rare, and Chinese girls more so. But Jack
Burton asks Lo Pan this very question, (&2000 years and you can't
find one broad to fit the bill? C'mon Dave, you must be doing something
seriously wrong!&) whereby Lo Pan responds, &There have
been others. There are always others, even in a life as short as yours.
But you know the way it works with women, how seldom it works out...
yet we all keep trying like fools!& So
it looks like Lo Pan had other women, but for one reason or another,
they were never good enough to break his curse.
Not good enough? How green do your eyes have to be to break the curse?
there's a test, actually. Lo Pan refers to it as &Embracing the
Naked Blade& and &Taming the Savage Heart.& Remember
in the middle of the film how Lo Pan has Gracie Law and Miao Yin grasp
Rain's swords, fly in the air, and touch the glowing orb, causing
the statue's eyes to blink? It would seem that both Gracie and Miao
passed the tests. The odds that both of them pass after 2000 years
of unsuccessful attempts seems highly improbable, but hey, that's
What's up with Lo Pan looking both old and young?
though Lo Pan suffers from the curse of &No Flesh,& it seems
that he has a physical form that's ridiculously old (2000 years -
beats out Yoda). As this ancient cripple in a wheelchair, he can still
pick up telephones, giving evidence of his physical form. He's very
weak, apparently, as indicated by his use of an electric wheelchair
rather than manual one.
he feels like stretching his legs a bit, Lo Pan can transform into
his &Spirit form,& a seven-foot tall ghost of what he probably
looked like during the height of his power 2000 years ago. In this
form, he has no substance, passing through walls and not having the
ability to touch anything.
during the actual wedding ceremony between Lo Pan and Miao Yin, the
curse begins to reverse and Lo Pan has enough substance to pick up
the &Needle of Love& and put it into Miao Yin. Lo Pan knows
the curse is lifting when he notices blood on his fingers, indicating
his flesh and blood are returning. The
curse is not fully lifted, however, as Lo Pan is able to allow Egg
Shen's rocket launcher missile to pass right through him during the
wedding ceremony fight sequence. Once
the curse is gone, Lo Pan loses both his pale fleshtone and his immortality.
It is in this form that Jack is able to kill him with his knife-reflex
action at the end of the film.
Why &David& Lo Pan?
dunno... I guess that's what happens when you enter the USA through
Ellis Island. It's an amusing American surname to accompany the foreign
sounding &Lo Pan.& Besides, I still crack up when Jack refers
to Lo Pan as &Dave.&Then
again, it might be Lo Pan's &Business name& as the head
of the National Orient B something to distract people from his
infamous last name.
What's Egg Shen's story?
never really gone into detail, but from what we see and hear of Egg,
it can be assumed that he is older and more powerful than he looks.
It is also very likely that Egg Shen had fought Lo Pan sometime in
the past, evidenced by Lo Pan's line during their magic duel, &You
never could beat me, Egg Shen.& We
do know that Egg Shen is knowledgeable about Chinese history, Chinatown,
and Chinese black magic. He's &a very rich man& who owns
several large buildings in Chinatown. Egg also runs a San Francisco
tour bus service called &Egg Foo Young Tours& where he acts
as a bus driver and tourguide. Perhaps
Egg is an ancient sorcerer like Lo Pan, only he aged better. Maybe
he's just had a chance to face Lo Pan when he was younger. It would
take a movie prequel to explain this.
What the hell is Margot Litzenberger's role in the film?
She's a reporter for the Daily People's Herald. She's gotta have her scoop. And Eddie needs a love interest.
What the hell are all the Chinese hells?
Characters
mention five Chinese hells throughout the film. They are (in this
Hell of Being Cut to Pieces
Hell of Boiling Oil
Hell of the Upside Down Sinners
Hell Where People are Skinned Alive
Hell of the Oily Dragon (not Horny Dragon, as has been suggested)
The DVD also has Uncle Chu mention &The Hell of the Vast Cold& in one of the deleted scenes.
What is that weird underwater room with all the skeletons?
the &Hell of the Upside Down Sinners.& It is conveniently
located on the lower floors of the Wing Kong Exchange building. Seems
like a prison where prisoners are hung upside down that got flooded
with salt water from the bay.
Who's that grinning Chinese guy on the banner during the funeral in
the alley?
Lem Lee, the previous Godfather of Little China, one of Lo Pan's competitors
who got assassinated by the Wing Kong under orders from Lo Pan. For
more information about Lem Lee, I wrote a short story called &The Hell
of Being Cut to Pieces& found in the Creative Writing section
on my website, the Wing Kong Exchange ()
Why are the two gangs fighting in the alley?
gang, wearing all black, is known as the Wing Kong, vicious warriors
commanded by Lo Pan. The other gang, wearing tan outfits, are the
Chang Sings.The
Chang Sings apparently were supporters of Lem Lee, who was killed
by the Wing Kong. The Chang Sings want revenge, thus their confront
in the alley.
To quote Uncle Chu, &They've been fighting for centuries!&
Who are the Three Storms?
are: Thunder (Carter Wong), Rain (Peter Kwong) and Lightning (James
Pax). Each Storm is a physical manifestation of the major elements
of nature.Thunder's
strength lies in his physical abilities. When upset, he is known to
physically expand in rage. He wields a pair of Sais during the alley
fight.Rain
is a master swordsman and is quite agile. He wields a pair of clawed
maces. Lightning
is the creepy guy who doesn't say much but harnesses electricity.
During the alley fight, he has a pair of spinning forks (!) at his
Hey, isn't Lightning the same character from Mortal Kombat?
yeah, they look the same, don't they?
think the character of Lightning comes from Chinese mythology, and
is not intrinsically from BTLC. That said, yes, they are probably
supposed to be the same character. No doubt the people at Midway games
watched BTLC when coming up with an idea for the character in the
Who's that old guy in the hat seen momentarily in the alley before
the big fight?
Lo Pan in &civilian clothes.& He looks old, but not as old
as in his wheelchair form, which probably means he's in his ghost form.
Perhaps he takes this form when he wants to spy on his minions in Chinatown.
He does note Jack's truck and smiles knowingly.
What's in the Six Demon Bag?
fire... that sort of thing.
What's in that flask Jack drinks, magic potion?
Good, thought so. What do we do, drink it?
Good, thought so. What's that symbol that forms in the lightning as
the Storm is killed?
told that the symbol is the Chinese symbol for &Carpenter,&
for John Carpenter, the director.
Is there a relationship between Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo
was directed
by W.D. Richter, who wrote the screenplay to . If you watch the end of Buckaroo
Banzai, the film mentions a potential sequel called &Buckaroo
Banzai Against the World Crime League.& Supposedly, Richter was
writing this Banzai sequel and, under John Carpenter's direction,
it eventually morphed into Big Trouble in Little China.
but the plot thickens. In 1996, a BB fan named Ernest Cline wrote
a professional screenplay of &World Crime League& which
almost made it big time. You can find more info at
interestingly, his script has several scenes with none other than
wise-cracking, truck-driving Jack Burton!
Here's the first scene with Jack:
_________________________________
trucker, wearing a ball cap and sunglasses, walks out of the station
a huge submarine sandwich. He's got a saddlebag slung over his shoulder.
He glances at the Jet Car, and Buckaroo motions to him.
Excuse me, sir. Do you know who that
truck over there belongs to?
TRUCKER: Jack Burton . . . Me.
BUCKAROO: Well, Mr. Burton, we need to get this car to
Holland Township, New Jersey as quickly as possible.
If you'd be willing to tow us with your rig, we'd be
glad to compensate you.
JACK BURTON: That won't be necessary, Dr. Banzai.
turns sideways so that they can all see the Blue Blaze Irregular
patch on the shoulder of his jacket.
JACK BURTON: You pay for the speeding tickets and I'll have you back
at the Institute in an hour, tops.
BUCKAROO:Thank you, Mr. Burton.
JACK BURTON: Call me Jack.
BUCKAROO: Buckaroo.
(shaking his hand)
Say Jack, mind if I have half your sandwich there? I'm starving. Skipped breakfast.
JACK: (handing him the sub)
Knock yourself out, Buckaroo.
(to the others)
Reno, Rawhide, Sid, if you fellas push her around in back
of the 'ole Porkchop Express there, I'll hitch ya on.
are all a bit stunned and impressed that he knows their names. They
pushing, and Tommy smiles and hops back behind the wheel to steer.
Buckaroo lays
into the sandwich like he hasn't eaten all day (which he hasn't) and
his taste buds
are immediately on fire. He drops the sandwich and begins fanning
his mouth.
JACK: Chinese pepper-steak. Packs a wallop, don't it?
Jersey hands Buckaroo a canteen, which he empties.
New Jersey motions to the saddlebags slung over Burton's shoulders.
NEW JERSEY: Like your saddlebags.
Thanks. Real leather.